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Souls Who Delight in the Law of God:
It is difficult, precious ones, for men and women to realize that others do not always see things exactly as they do. Mortal life is brief, while the latitude of human opinion is wide. Truth is a very narrow band in the spectrum of material knowledge paraded before the eyes of the mind, and this quantitatively precludes the possibility of a thorough pursuit of Truth.
At present Truth holds no true course down the line of human reason, applied thought, accepted concepts, class dogma, advanced philosophy, or primitive thought; but often, like a diagonal runner, Truth angles through many human levels and strata, then veers off, either left or right, in sharp tangents wholly outside the realm of man's contemporary discoveries.
It ought to be considered no strange thing, then, that neither codified law nor religious dogma have presently attained to the whole subject matter of divine principle in an infallible way. Human fallibility is often not admitted; and because specific concepts do not fall within the circle of man's already accepted concepts, they are often rejected as untrue or even as bordering on insanity.
The present modes of life upon the planet Earth are indeed a far cry from the great God-happiness which the ascended masters would universally bestow. There is a very wide acceptance of the idea that religion is cloistered - that true saints are domiciled in a monastic court where the stranger cometh not. Religion and God are often identified with severe austerity, and the concept that self-denial is inherent in true piety is scattered through the world.
In our state we often feel that those who deny themselves the most are they who feed at the trough of the mundane swineherders and eat the husks of mortal reason, thought, and feeling, complacently abiding like the dumb oxen in a sickly weed patch whereas the green pastures of God are just around the bend of mankind's failures, waiting to be partaken of so that the soul may wax fat in divine abundance.
Having this in mind, I urge all men to rediscover a life of spiritual dedication. The dried tree of stolid, unprogressive orthodoxy fit for the burning has a counterpart nigh at hand - a green tree, whose perennial branches pointing toward God are imbued with a holiness, dwelling not in temples made with hands nor in the swinish fodder of mortal argument and senseless dissension.1 People who would be communicants to the body of Christ must behold now the peace-making Lamb of God. The sea of glass upon which the company of saints do stand and whereupon the Lamb of God is ministered unto before the throne of God signifies transparency of thought and feeling which permits the penetration of the unfailing light of Truth and withal the tangible light of the immortal Presence of God.2
You know, precious ones, it is perhaps a trite saying but nonetheless it is true at the present moment that there is nothing so certain as death and taxes for mortals, cast as they are in the steadily fading image of twentieth-century man.
I think, then, of the writings of Luke concerning the birth of Jesus and the decree of Caesar Augustus "that all the world should be taxed."3 I think of the words of the Master Jesus, "Render unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's,"4 and I know full well that this generation has more diligently rendered their substance unto Caesar than they have even thought of providing materially for the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth. Rendering unto God those things which are God's does not appear to most men to be a karmic necessity.
We stand, then, with the company of saints as ministrants to mankind, awaiting the moment when the riches of heaven can be bestowed upon the accepting ones. There are those who would rise in defense of the youth of the world today without realizing that it is never the youth or the aged or men themselves who are wholly to blame for that which is happening in the world. It is the spirit that uses mankind that is to blame; therefore purity of spirit, stemming wholly from determined God-seeking, is the crying need of this hour. Many teach the divine pursuit but withal cage men with such dogma as to make them enemies of other pilgrims upon the Path. This is not the divine way, nor is it the way of peace.
We seek, as one who plays a lute, to run the fingers of our affection over the strings of man's resonant consciousness and bring forth a melody of soul harmony in human affairs. Your parks and streets and cities ought to be places of safety. The gaze of a man cast upon another man ought to be free from hate, from suspicion, and from curiosity. The gaze itself ought to function as the beholding eye of God, and men ought to send forth a penetrating ray of light charged with love, wisdom, and power to bless and heal the wounds of other men whom they meet.
Now, then, because so little of the Law is practiced, the world reeks with the stench of abomination. The free press has become controlled by those bigots of religion who see to it that advertising for a "competitive religion" is denied access to their publications. The heavy hand of control reaches out to cage men in, as the masters of men would have them kept. Human thought is molded by policy-makers and the pure, fresh air of freedom passes over the stench pots of ancient tradition.
Now, then, comes the Christ into the marts of men - invisible, incorporeal, and yet tangibly felt by those who know him. Beholding the abominations of men, the Christ weeps over this civilization also, as he did over Jerusalem of old. For the luminous Presence of Jesus and the luminous Presence of every ascended master would long ago have manifested to many; but these have not relaxed the tensions generated by human reason, rather have they persisted in accepting the doubts and tumult of the times.
I come, then, with new hope this harvest season, and I bear to those Summiteers who have long served this light in pursuit of the divine image on high a hand of fervent faith in divine charity which, when pursued, wins victory for all. You see, now that I have flung down my glove, my naked hand shall clasp the hand of those friends of freedom who are willing to see that the philosophy of action is needed today, and I will assist them in every way I can.
The track of time moves on. We would spill out the old burdens that have vainly weighed men down and let them feel the buoyancy of present possibility.
Your beloved Morya has counseled us often and said, "I think a strike for the light is needed." And, as in olden days of human battle when the din rose high, we must today strike for God and his light and win a continued series of victories ere the final one shall dawn. We have so much to offer you and our hearts are full indeed, but we advocate withal a preparedness and readiness to receive that which we have to give.
Do not be wholly content with all that you have understood. To truly study does not mean merely to gloss over our words by the mere scan of your attention's scantiness, but to ponder the contact that is Freedom's bond!
The will of God is rising as a flood and sweeping over the earth. Simply because some choose to ignore it or to go on in an old, familiar pattern does not mean that it shall not now gather enough energy until its effect cannot be denied.
Freedom is more than a word
Freedom is a flame
Freedom is more than a sword
Freedom is a game
Of liberation
And the might of light,
Of Truth-telling by the power of right,
And of Love's laws delight.
Delight thyself in the law of God
And thou shalt be merry indeed;
Delight thyself in the law of God
And plant each day a divine seed.
Delight thyself in the law of God
And measure take by heaven's reed;
Fulfill it all and thus recall
To do so by God's speed!